Wonderfull instrument and playing! After the second manual is removed you move the first manual a bit in to the organ. Why is that? Are the mechanics from the keys to pipes, different when the harpsicord are attached?
What is the make of your continuo organ? Where would it be possible to obtain one? Also, did you drill holes under the harpsichord to make space for the couplers?
Hi! It was the organ builder Quentin Requier who made my chest organ and designed the coupling mechanism. He was also the one who drilled my harpsichord to let the organ mechanics through. Regards, Ghislain
Were the organ and harpsichord specifically built to be used either alone or together, or are those modified versions of an ordinary organ and harpsichord?
The harpsichord is slightly modified. The organ is specifically build to be used as a claviorganum, but the idea was to design a chest organ capable of playing alone most of the repertoire until the 18th century.
As a musician I think: you can't do better than that... As an architect I think: you have to be able to do it better ;-) at least the very complex conversion where each coupling pin has to be inserted individually by hand...
in fact, my specifications that I imposed on my organ builder were complex: At least -two 8’ including one open stop -a 16' reed -a 2cl/ped organ capable of playing all the repertoire up to Mendelssohn -transportable and passing through 70cm doors -easy to tune -convertible into a claviorganum -and most importantly: it should sounds like a large organ and not like a chest organ …my organ builder had a few sleepless nights:):)
What an awesome instrument mate!
If there was water and food in that room, I could live in there.
There is indeed:) anyway the claviorganum is really easy to move!
Wonderfull instrument and playing! After the second manual is removed you move the first manual a bit in to the organ. Why is that? Are the mechanics from the keys to pipes, different when the harpsicord are attached?
Thank you,
The first manual can stay at the same place, but it’s easier to play when all 3 manuals are near each other. The mechanic is the same.
What is the make of your continuo organ? Where would it be possible to obtain one?
Also, did you drill holes under the harpsichord to make space for the couplers?
Hi! It was the organ builder Quentin Requier who made my chest organ and designed the coupling mechanism. He was also the one who drilled my harpsichord to let the organ mechanics through.
Regards, Ghislain
Were the organ and harpsichord specifically built to be used either alone or together, or are those modified versions of an ordinary organ and harpsichord?
The harpsichord is slightly modified. The organ is specifically build to be used as a claviorganum, but the idea was to design a chest organ capable of playing alone most of the repertoire until the 18th century.
As a musician I think: you can't do better than that...
As an architect I think: you have to be able to do it better ;-)
at least the very complex conversion
where each coupling pin has to be inserted individually by hand...
in fact, my specifications that I imposed on my organ builder were complex:
At least
-two 8’ including one open stop
-a 16' reed
-a 2cl/ped organ capable of playing all the repertoire up to Mendelssohn
-transportable and passing through 70cm doors
-easy to tune
-convertible into a claviorganum
-and most importantly: it should sounds like a large organ and not like a chest organ
…my organ builder had a few sleepless nights:):)
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